Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake kills 162

Rescuers searched for survivors buried under rubble after an earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in collapsed buildings.

The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake was near the town of Cianjur in Indonesia's most-populous province West Java, where most of the victims were killed as buildings collapsed and landslides were triggered.

As body bags emerged from crumpled buildings, rescue efforts turned to the missing and any survivors still under debris in areas made hard to reach by the mass of obstacles thrown onto the town's roads by the quake.

Indonesia's national disaster mitigation agency, or BNPB, said at least 25 people were still buried under the rubble in Cianjur as darkness fell.

Some of the dead were students at an Islamic boarding school while others were killed in their homes when roofs and walls fell on them.

The search operation  was made more challenging because of severed road links and power outages in parts of the largely rural, mountainous region.

89 percent of power to Cianjur had been recovered by state-owned electricity company PLN, according to state news agency Antara.

West Java governor Ridwan Kamil said more than 300 people had been injured and over 13,000 taken to evacuation centres.

Doctors treated patients outdoors at makeshift wards after the quake, which was felt as far away as the capital Jakarta.